Faculty of Arts Asia Institute

Curriculum Vitae

Dr Ikuko Nakane


Professional Address

Japanese Program
Asia Institute
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia

Tel: +61 3 8344 8893
Fax: +61 3 9349 3472
E-mail: inakane@unimelb.edu.au


Degrees, Qualifications

2003 Ph.D. University of Sydney, Australia
1998 M.A. University of Sydney, Australia
1995 TESOL Certificate, Trinity College London, UK
1991 B.A. Gakushuin University, Japan

Career, Principal Offices, Principal Positions Held

2006 - Lecturer, Asia Institute
2005 - 2006 Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney
2003 – 2004 Lecturer (2004), Associate lecturer (2003), Japanese and Korean Studies, The University of New South Wales
1999 – 2002 Sessional lecturer & tutor, Japanese and Korean Studies, The University of New South Wales
1999 – 2001 Sessional lecturer & Japanese program coordinator, Central Queensland University Sydney International Campus

Research Interests

Discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, especially in the areas of:


Principal publications

Book

Nakane, I. (2007) Silence in Intercultural Communication: perceptions and performance in the classroom. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Book Chapters

Tokumaru, S., Motobayashi, K., Horikawa, Y., Nakane, I., and Chen, S. (2008). Sakubun.org internet bulletin borad: from composition to essay. In Hatasa, Y. (ed). Japanese as a Foreign Language Education: Multiple perspectives. Kurosio. pp.169-186.

Nakane, I. and Ellwood, C. (2009). Speech and silence in the classroom: Japanese students' desire and struggle to speak. In Making a Difference: Challenges for Applied Linguistics. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Press. pp. 97-108.

Nakane, I. and Tokumaru, S. (2009). Online nihongo sakubun project ni yoru jiko hyogenryoku no ikusei (Facilitating writing skills through online essay project. In Thomson Kinoshita C. (ed.) Gakushusha Shutai no Nihongo Kyoiku: Australia ni okeru jissen kenkyu. (New Learning Pedagogies for Learner Agency: Japanese Language Education Research and Practice in Australia). Tokyo: Coco Publishers. pp.127-142.

Refereed Journal Articles

Nakane, I. (2005) Negotiating silence and speech in the classroom.Multilingua 24: 1-2,
75-100.

Nakane, I.(2006) Silence and politeness in intercultural communication in university seminars. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (11) 1811-1835.

Nakane, I. (2007) Problems in communicating the suspect's rights in interpreted police interviews. Applied Linguistics 28 (1) 87-112.

Nakane, I. (2008) Gender and politeness in interpreted police interviews. Monash University Linguistics Papers 6 (1) 29-40.

Ellwood, C. and Nakane, I. (2009) Privileging of speech in EAP and mainstream university classrooms: A critical evaluation of participation. TESOL Quarterly 43 (2) 203-230.

Nakane, I. (2009) The myth of an 'invisible mediator': An Australian case study of English-Japanese police interpreting. PORTAL: Jounal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 6 (1). epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal

Nakane, I. (forthcoming) The role of silence in interpreted police interviews. Journal of Pragmatics.

Book reviews

Nakane, I. (2005) Review of House, J., G. Gabriele, & S. Ross 'Misunderstanding in Social Life: Discourse approaches to problematic talk.' London: Longman 2003. Discourse & Society 16 (1) 136-138.

Nakane, I. (2005) Review of Alison Alexander & W. James Potter 'How to Publish Your Communication Research: An Insider's Guide.' Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 2001. Discourse & Society 16 (2) 304-305.

Nakane, I. (2006) Review of Richard Watts 'Politeness'. Cambridge:CUP. 2003 and Sara Mills 'Gender and Politeness'. Cambridge: CUP. 2003 Discourse & Society 17, 413-416.

Nakane, I. (2006) Review of Morita, Emi 'Negotiation of Contingent Talk: The Japanese Interactional Particles ne and sa' Journal of Sociolinguistics 2007 11 (2), 310-312.

Nakane, I. (2008) Review of Rock, Frances, 'Communicating rights: the language of arrest and detention' Palgrave: Basingstoke 2007 The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 15 (2) 281-286.